The Stone Canal
E638255
The Stone Canal is a science fiction novel by Ken MacLeod that explores artificial intelligence, political ideology, and posthuman society across intertwined timelines.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Stone Canal canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7060134 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Stone Canal Context triple: [Ken MacLeod, notableWork, The Stone Canal]
-
A.
Barkley Canal
Barkley Canal is a man-made waterway in western Kentucky that links Kentucky Lake with Lake Barkley, enabling navigation between the two reservoirs.
-
B.
Blackstone Canal
The Blackstone Canal is a historic 19th-century waterway in the northeastern United States that played a key role in early industrial transportation and the development of mill towns in the Blackstone Valley.
-
C.
Feeder Canal
The Feeder Canal is an artificial waterway in Bristol, England, that connects the River Avon to Bristol Harbour and helps regulate water levels for the city’s docks.
-
D.
Burlington Canal
The Burlington Canal is a navigational waterway in Ontario, Canada, that provides ship access between Lake Ontario and Hamilton Harbour.
-
E.
Surplus Canal
Surplus Canal is a man-made waterway in Utah designed to divert excess flow from the Jordan River for flood control and irrigation.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Stone Canal Target entity description: The Stone Canal is a science fiction novel by Ken MacLeod that explores artificial intelligence, political ideology, and posthuman society across intertwined timelines.
-
A.
Barkley Canal
Barkley Canal is a man-made waterway in western Kentucky that links Kentucky Lake with Lake Barkley, enabling navigation between the two reservoirs.
-
B.
Blackstone Canal
The Blackstone Canal is a historic 19th-century waterway in the northeastern United States that played a key role in early industrial transportation and the development of mill towns in the Blackstone Valley.
-
C.
Feeder Canal
The Feeder Canal is an artificial waterway in Bristol, England, that connects the River Avon to Bristol Harbour and helps regulate water levels for the city’s docks.
-
D.
Burlington Canal
The Burlington Canal is a navigational waterway in Ontario, Canada, that provides ship access between Lake Ontario and Hamilton Harbour.
-
E.
Surplus Canal
Surplus Canal is a man-made waterway in Utah designed to divert excess flow from the Jordan River for flood control and irrigation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Ken MacLeod ⓘ |
| awardNomination |
Arthur C. Clarke Award
ⓘ
BSFA Award for Best Novel ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| followedBy |
The Cassini Division
ⓘ
linked to:
Cassini Division
|
| follows | The Star Fraction ⓘ |
| genre |
political science fiction
ⓘ
science fiction ⓘ space opera ⓘ |
| hasCoverArtist | Mark Harrison ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 978-0-09-955974-8 ⓘ |
| hasMedium |
hardcover
ⓘ
paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
artificial intelligences
ⓘ
economic systems ⓘ nanotechnology ⓘ political revolution ⓘ robot rights ⓘ terraforming ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Anja
ⓘ
David Reid ⓘ Jay-Dub ⓘ Jonathan Wilde ⓘ |
| narrativeStructure | intertwined timelines ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Ken MacLeod bibliography ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1996 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Legend Books
ⓘ
Orbit Books ⓘ |
| series | Fall Revolution series ⓘ |
| setting |
Earth
ⓘ
New Mars ⓘ future ⓘ posthuman society ⓘ |
| theme |
anarchism
ⓘ
artificial intelligence ⓘ capitalism ⓘ free will ⓘ libertarianism ⓘ personal identity ⓘ political ideology ⓘ posthumanism ⓘ revolution ⓘ uploading of consciousness ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: The Stone Canal Description of subject: The Stone Canal is a science fiction novel by Ken MacLeod that explores artificial intelligence, political ideology, and posthuman society across intertwined timelines.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.